Luke Berryman
@lukeberryman.bsky.social
Founder of The Ninth Candle | Director of Experiential Learning
at IMSA | PhD from King's College London | Author of RESISTING NAZISM (forthcoming from Bloomsbury) | OUFC
https://theninthcandle.com
at IMSA | PhD from King's College London | Author of RESISTING NAZISM (forthcoming from Bloomsbury) | OUFC
https://theninthcandle.com
Want to read more? You can preorder "Resisting Nazism" from Bloomsbury USA here! 👇
www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...
#resistance #compassion #culture #collaboration #nonviolence #arts
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www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...
#resistance #compassion #culture #collaboration #nonviolence #arts
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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Want to read more? You can preorder "Resisting Nazism" from Bloomsbury USA here! 👇
www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...
#resistance #compassion #culture #collaboration #nonviolence #arts
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www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...
#resistance #compassion #culture #collaboration #nonviolence #arts
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🎶 Creativity is the beating heart of resistance.
"I've been head-over-heels in love with music my entire life," Arno told me. "I still am. I spend hours a day listening to music." Let the arts fuel you!
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"I've been head-over-heels in love with music my entire life," Arno told me. "I still am. I spend hours a day listening to music." Let the arts fuel you!
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🎶 Creativity is the beating heart of resistance.
"I've been head-over-heels in love with music my entire life," Arno told me. "I still am. I spend hours a day listening to music." Let the arts fuel you!
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"I've been head-over-heels in love with music my entire life," Arno told me. "I still am. I spend hours a day listening to music." Let the arts fuel you!
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🤝 Cross-community collaboration can foster positive change.
To achieve his goals, Arno actively collaborates with victims of violent extremism - giving them a voice and a chance to share their story.
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To achieve his goals, Arno actively collaborates with victims of violent extremism - giving them a voice and a chance to share their story.
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🤝 Cross-community collaboration can foster positive change.
To achieve his goals, Arno actively collaborates with victims of violent extremism - giving them a voice and a chance to share their story.
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To achieve his goals, Arno actively collaborates with victims of violent extremism - giving them a voice and a chance to share their story.
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🕊️ True courage = responding to aggression with compassion.
"If I think about resistance, then I think about resisting the provocation to violence," Arno said. "What does take courage - true courage - is responding to aggression with compassion.'"
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"If I think about resistance, then I think about resisting the provocation to violence," Arno said. "What does take courage - true courage - is responding to aggression with compassion.'"
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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🕊️ True courage = responding to aggression with compassion.
"If I think about resistance, then I think about resisting the provocation to violence," Arno said. "What does take courage - true courage - is responding to aggression with compassion.'"
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"If I think about resistance, then I think about resisting the provocation to violence," Arno said. "What does take courage - true courage - is responding to aggression with compassion.'"
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💡 Find "gray areas" and throw yourself into them.
Arno used the term "gray areas" to describe spaces in which we expose ourselves to cultures, opinions, and traditions other than our own. "Violent extremism can't function in gray areas. It can't function if there's curiosity or wonder."
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Arno used the term "gray areas" to describe spaces in which we expose ourselves to cultures, opinions, and traditions other than our own. "Violent extremism can't function in gray areas. It can't function if there's curiosity or wonder."
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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
💡 Find "gray areas" and throw yourself into them.
Arno used the term "gray areas" to describe spaces in which we expose ourselves to cultures, opinions, and traditions other than our own. "Violent extremism can't function in gray areas. It can't function if there's curiosity or wonder."
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Arno used the term "gray areas" to describe spaces in which we expose ourselves to cultures, opinions, and traditions other than our own. "Violent extremism can't function in gray areas. It can't function if there's curiosity or wonder."
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Here's a sneak preview of four things that I learned about resistance from interviewing Arno Michaelis (once a violent far-right extremist and now a leading peace advocate) for the book:
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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Here's a sneak preview of four things that I learned about resistance from interviewing Arno Michaelis (once a violent far-right extremist and now a leading peace advocate) for the book:
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Thanks for sharing these wonderful words - they chime with so much of what I've tried to communicate in my book.
I'd love to have a link to your piece about your family friend if it's available online!
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I'd love to have a link to your piece about your family friend if it's available online!
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July 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thanks for sharing these wonderful words - they chime with so much of what I've tried to communicate in my book.
I'd love to have a link to your piece about your family friend if it's available online!
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I'd love to have a link to your piece about your family friend if it's available online!
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Thanks for reading the article, and for including these great suggestions + links! I'm glad that the ideas resonated with you ✌️
June 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Thanks for reading the article, and for including these great suggestions + links! I'm glad that the ideas resonated with you ✌️
Thanks for commenting, Kevin. I'm glad that the article resonated with you, and I hope that you'll enjoy the book once it's out! 📖✌️
June 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thanks for commenting, Kevin. I'm glad that the article resonated with you, and I hope that you'll enjoy the book once it's out! 📖✌️
Thanks for commenting! In the book, I try and capture how monumentally difficult it was for survivors to share their stories in Frankfurt. The court environment was often unsupportive, and sometimes willfully hostile. The people who saw it through - like your Dad - deserve to be well-remembered. ✌️❤️
June 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks for commenting! In the book, I try and capture how monumentally difficult it was for survivors to share their stories in Frankfurt. The court environment was often unsupportive, and sometimes willfully hostile. The people who saw it through - like your Dad - deserve to be well-remembered. ✌️❤️
Thanks for commenting! Empathy and humility were certainly two shared qualities in every single resister that I researched for my book. ❤️✌️
June 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Thanks for commenting! Empathy and humility were certainly two shared qualities in every single resister that I researched for my book. ❤️✌️
As for "the now": when I began working on it, I hoped that it would be an interesting collection of forgotten historical stories. But, as the political landscape in the US began to shift, they suddenly gained more urgency...
I hope that you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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I hope that you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
As for "the now": when I began working on it, I hoped that it would be an interesting collection of forgotten historical stories. But, as the political landscape in the US began to shift, they suddenly gained more urgency...
I hope that you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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I hope that you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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Thanks for commenting! Yes, most of the examples that I gave in the article are from the post-1945 period - but the book itself has twelve chapters, the first six of which are about resistance between the 1920s and 1940s.
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June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thanks for commenting! Yes, most of the examples that I gave in the article are from the post-1945 period - but the book itself has twelve chapters, the first six of which are about resistance between the 1920s and 1940s.
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Through seventy hours of painstaking conversation, she eventually achieved something that the courts never did: she got him to offer a confession of guilt.
Hope you'll consider reading more about her in my book once it's out! ✌️🙂
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Hope you'll consider reading more about her in my book once it's out! ✌️🙂
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June 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Through seventy hours of painstaking conversation, she eventually achieved something that the courts never did: she got him to offer a confession of guilt.
Hope you'll consider reading more about her in my book once it's out! ✌️🙂
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Hope you'll consider reading more about her in my book once it's out! ✌️🙂
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I'd argue that it's possible to empathize with the other side while steadfastly denouncing and rejecting their beliefs.
One example that comes to mind is Gitta Sereny, a journalist who interviewed Franz Stangl, a Nazi mass murderer, in the years after the War.
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One example that comes to mind is Gitta Sereny, a journalist who interviewed Franz Stangl, a Nazi mass murderer, in the years after the War.
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June 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'd argue that it's possible to empathize with the other side while steadfastly denouncing and rejecting their beliefs.
One example that comes to mind is Gitta Sereny, a journalist who interviewed Franz Stangl, a Nazi mass murderer, in the years after the War.
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One example that comes to mind is Gitta Sereny, a journalist who interviewed Franz Stangl, a Nazi mass murderer, in the years after the War.
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Those points include nationalist racism; misogyny; a disdain for democracy, the law, and the state; a willingness to use violence as a political tool; and a fundamental disregard for facts and truth.
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June 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Those points include nationalist racism; misogyny; a disdain for democracy, the law, and the state; a willingness to use violence as a political tool; and a fundamental disregard for facts and truth.
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As I argue in my book, the "alt-right" and Nazism aren't always the same - but they have enough points of overlap to justify comparing them...
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June 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
As I argue in my book, the "alt-right" and Nazism aren't always the same - but they have enough points of overlap to justify comparing them...
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Thanks for posting this. As one interviewee in my book said to me, "the smallest action is always worthwhile." Don't lose hope! ✊
June 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thanks for posting this. As one interviewee in my book said to me, "the smallest action is always worthwhile." Don't lose hope! ✊
Thanks for commenting! Sebastian Haffner did write his book in the 1930s, although I appreciate that I could have made that clearer in the article.
My book has twelve chapters; the first six deal with resistance to Nazism between the 1920s-40s. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 📖✌️
My book has twelve chapters; the first six deal with resistance to Nazism between the 1920s-40s. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 📖✌️
June 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thanks for commenting! Sebastian Haffner did write his book in the 1930s, although I appreciate that I could have made that clearer in the article.
My book has twelve chapters; the first six deal with resistance to Nazism between the 1920s-40s. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 📖✌️
My book has twelve chapters; the first six deal with resistance to Nazism between the 1920s-40s. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 📖✌️
Also, the book is less about the Nazi dictatorship, more about Nazism as an ideology - which was born in Munich in 1920, and which has survived up to the present. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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June 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Also, the book is less about the Nazi dictatorship, more about Nazism as an ideology - which was born in Munich in 1920, and which has survived up to the present. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️
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Thanks for commenting! Of course, you're right that the Nazi dictatorship was defeated by war - although, in the book, I try to show that there were resisters who actively undermined it in ways that (sometimes) stopped it from achieving all its goals.
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June 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Thanks for commenting! Of course, you're right that the Nazi dictatorship was defeated by war - although, in the book, I try to show that there were resisters who actively undermined it in ways that (sometimes) stopped it from achieving all its goals.
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